Ellie Lobovits is a visual artist, writer, and midwife-in-training. Ellie’s practice spans diverse media, including photography, film, collage and text. Self-portraiture, imagery of the natural world, and first-person narratives are recurring elements in her exploration of the intersections of feminist identity, the body, land, loss, and memory. Interweaving autobiographical elements with current socio-political issues, she explores what occurs in the space of juxtaposition between the so-called private and public spheres.
Ellie’s experimental film Miss You is currently on view in the group show Conversations at Goucher College Silber Art Gallery and her essay Night Life is in the Winter 2024 issue of Fence Magazine. Most recently, Ellie’s photography was part of the virtual group show Naissance/Re-Naissance curated by Hettie Judah at Unit London, and her work was exhibited as part of the Material/Inheritance show at the Jewish Museum of Maryland. Ellie’s Fertility Series was published in the Summer 2022 issue of Jewish Currents. Her 2018 documentary film, Birth on the Border, explores childbirth and legal border-crossing on the US-Mexico border and is a Women Make Movies release. Ellie’s zine, a selection of her Night Flowers series, is available for sale at Printed Matter Books. Ellie was a 2020 New Jewish Culture Fellow and she holds an MA in Visual Anthropology from San Francisco State University.
Ellie also teaches about the wild and cultivated plant world. She holds and creates ritual space grounded in liberatory connection, plant magic and the ancient. She is the co-creator of the workshop series Jewish Plant Magic and for six years worked as a farmer + flower-grower. Ellie lives on unceded Lenape land, also known as Brooklyn.
Contact:
ellie.lobovits@gmail.com